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Yes. Orangutans are perfect gentlemen. They'd just better not shave or go on reality TV as "Ape Dynasty."

__________________"At the Supreme Court level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
Justice William O. Douglas

i keep vascillating but somehow i feel like this is an elaborate troll operation... a character hes playing

but then the whole youtube list is quite extensive - and weird - on his channel

__________________“ it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We’ll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief"
-Iain Banks

__________________"At the Supreme Court level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
Justice William O. Douglas

Of course, neither are real, so our blithering OP reference should have no issue cuddling up to one of the above. His agonising demise would be purely an evilutionist propaganda tactic.

__________________...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015

I don't know how common they are in the wild, but I saw one in a billabong in Victoria many years ago.......before computers were even a thing. I wonder why someone went to the trouble of making a model just to fool me, just a schoolkid at the time.

__________________"The Conservatives want to keep wogs out and march boldly back to the 1950s when Britain still had an Empire and blacks, women, poofs and Irish knew their place." The Don That's what we've sunk to here.

I don't know how common they are in the wild, but I saw one in a billabong in Victoria many years ago.......before computers were even a thing. I wonder why someone went to the trouble of making a model just to fool me, just a schoolkid at the time.

Lucky you. I've never seen a platypus in the wild, and just about every Australian marsupial, monotreme, reptile and mammal has been in my backyard.

I've seen splashes in rivers that may have been a platypus, but that's as close as I've got.

__________________A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

__________________"The Conservatives want to keep wogs out and march boldly back to the 1950s when Britain still had an Empire and blacks, women, poofs and Irish knew their place." The Don That's what we've sunk to here.

The platypus was described scientifically for the first time by Dr George Shaw (1751-1813), who named it Platypus anatinus. Platypus is an anglicised Greek word meaning flat foot, probably referring to the web on its feet. Unfortunately this name had already been applied to a genus of beetles, so it had to be changed. Ornithorhynchus (bird-snout) replaced it.

Next thing is that they will be telling us is that Drop Bears aren't real......

Great video anyway. I'm convinced.

Oh come on, we all know that Australia is a hoax anyways. I mean really, Giant Rabbits that carry their offspring in a pouch? 9 of the world's 10 most deadly snakes? Giant Crocodiles that can live in the sea? A huge red plug in the middle to stop it from sinking? Inhabited for 40,000 years when it's neighbours haven't had humans for much more than 600!

Only a really idiot would fall for all of that sort of nonsense.

__________________It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. -- JayUtahI am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

__________________/dann"Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx

Well, not all that shaved, a couple of my friends, if they take their shirts off, it looks like they are wearing sweaters. Even with shaving, one of my coworkers, his 5 o'clock shadow starts at about 11 am.

Yeah, the funny thing is it was seen and described in the scientific literature before Darwin or Wallace were even born.

The djævel at work!!!

The Devil was setting the scene for his future strategy of promoting evolution. A similar argument was advanced by Christians when their opponents pointed out that features of Christianity were anticipated by earlier religions. So, said the Christians, the Devil was mockingly imitating Christianity even before it came into existence. There's pure evil for you!

__________________- "Ernest Hemingway once wrote that the world is a fine place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part." - Detective Sommerset
- "Stupidity does not cancel out stupidity to yield genius. It breeds like a bucket-full of coked out hamsters." - The Oatmeal
- "To the best of my knowledge the only thing philosophy has ever proven is that Descartes could think." - SMBC

Are there even beavers in Australia? I know they're not native, but I don't know if they've ever been introduced.

You may have missed the joke......

__________________"The Conservatives want to keep wogs out and march boldly back to the 1950s when Britain still had an Empire and blacks, women, poofs and Irish knew their place." The Don That's what we've sunk to here.

Platypus being made up to support the theory of evolution is a weird proposal on many levels. Platypus are not particularly elegant examples of evolution IMO. There are no. extant transitional forms and platypus are one of only two living monotremes. The idea of having duck like beaks, webbed feet, and egg laying being all brought together in one animal is slightly more suggestive of a god on drugs and with a sense of humor than of evolution. Don't get me wrong- platipus are explained by evolution, but they are by no means the easiest example of evolution to present to an elementary school class.

I cannot tell if Hans is serious or satirical, but either way he has really captured the core of many conspiracy beliefs: "Hey, that looks odd to me given my ignorance and lack of education, experience, and understanding. Therefore it must be fake." Particularly amusing to me when applied to physics. APparently the real world must fit "common sense" so relativity and quantum mechanics must be wrong too.

Pretty funny, I thought. Looking at how many videos he has up it's remarkable how committed he is to this style of humor. Reminds me a bit of how long and thoroughly someone like Andy Kaufman or Ann Coulter would play out a gag.

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